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June 26, 2016

Sunday Morning Post Debacle Open Thread

Oh, brother.

OK, the Brexit question du jour - can London survive as the leading financial center of Europe (not to mention the world) if whatever is left of the UK is out of both the Euro and the EU?

In terms of current rankings, global finance is basically the old British Empire plus Zurich and Tokyo. Having English as the lingua franca is a plus, because bankers, lawyers and operations staff can flit around the globe relatively painlessly.

A logical long-term successor would be Frankfurt, currently placed at 18 on the global list. But would French, Italian and other European leaders - excuse me, "leaders" - be comfortable with Germany as the financial as well as commercial superpower of Europe?

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So the second highest official in the navy couldn't be bothered because he was attending foreign dignitaries, the rigmarole about not intervening was ludicrous, as I've pointed out before, re the Scott mcewen book.

And these new e-mails released ought to put Hillary out of the race (and into prison). Clearly a bunch of the e-mails that were deleted and not turned over to the investigation were not purely personal (big surprise). What's clear is that Hillary was only concerned with the security of her "personal" e-mails, not with national security.

The audit also cited a then-unreleased copy of a November 2010 email Clinton sent Abedin in which the secretary discussed using a government email account, expressing concern that she didn't want "any risk of the personal being accessible."

Ted Cruz and John Kasich have a message for Donald J. Trump: They don’t care if they are not invited to speak at his convention.

As Mr. Trump tries to plan a convention that will run as smoothly as possible, he said in an interview with The New York Times last week that he would not invite either Mr. Cruz or Mr. Kasich, both former rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, to speak at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland unless they endorsed him.

That is fine, both said on Monday. A spokeswoman for Mr. Cruz, Catherine Frazier, said the Texas senator did not have any expectation about receiving a speaking slot. A spokesman for Mr. Kasich, the governor of Ohio, was similarly indifferent...

...Mr. Kasich’s spokesman said the governor plans to be “in and around” Cleveland that week. But he has no plans to be involved in anything that has to do with Mr. Trump.

"House committee report investigating Benghazi attack faults Obama administration's response
The Republican-led House committee investigating the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi terrorist attack -- in which four American diplomatic staff were killed -- finds fault with the Obama administration's response, blaming a 'rusty bureaucratic process' that focused on crafting a public response to the attack rather than actually taking action to resolve the crisis. (FoxNews)"

Whether you are a Romney fan or a Trump fan, there can be no doubt that after accepting Trump's endorsement and money and praising him in 2012, Romney's attacks and underhanded actions against Trump were dishonorable in the extreme.

OL,
Good to see they identified the always stubborn "rusty bureaucratic process" as the problem. Do they suggest a quick shot of PB Blaster to correct the problem? I would've thought ideologogical ambition played a role somehow.

It's good that they used 1.6 reams of paper to tell us what we knew right away.

I have texted the TC Phoenix pic to all from whom I received a text. If you sent a text and haven't received a pic, your text must have gotten stuck in the text intertubes. Try again.

In answer to your query, anonamom, about the subject of the bet, I bet Trump would not win the GOP nomination. My agreement was to obtain a tat if he did. Various JOMers put up various things (for example, BOE agreed to send me a bottle of Bruichladdich scotch or traipse up to Beantown and treat me to a L'Espalier dinner). With Trump having secured more than half the delegates, I think it's fair to say I lost the bet even in the unlikely event of a successful coup.

Maybe other types of businesses can leap-frog on this ruling to say they don't want to obey any damn government mandated regulations either.

Apart from the specific issue involved (abortion), this SC ruling is outrageous for validating the federal government's override of individual states' regulations. The 10th Amendment is history. Uncle Sam knows better than your state or local government what's good for you. We're seeing the same thing with education, and I'm sure we'll see it soon with everything else traditionally left to state and local governments.

Geez, no disrespect to any hetero male here intended at all, but facts are facts. And I didn't start it, Beasts did.
He posted earlier about the HRC-Fuaxahontas pairing yesterday--two old hags.

All Trump has to do is make sure Melania is on stage with him as often as is humanly possible between now and November, and the election is his.

Just sayin'---at least from how my partners perk up whenever our new young blondes-with-ponytails junior partners are working with them. ;-)
A la what Scott Adams is trying to teach us about elections.

You just know the MSM is having a good chuckle at Republicans' expense over the Benghazi report. The Dems' report is so politicized that it talks about Trump a dozen times, while the "responsible" Republicans can't find a way to prevent the MSM from spinning this as vindication for Hillary.

It's also interesting that the committee's report was described (at least in some places) as the "Republican" report. Shouldn't it be the official report of the Committee, with Dems issuing a dissenting report? When the sham Financial Crisis committee, with a majority of Democrats did it, that's how it was, with a dissenting report published as an addendum.

Just one more milestone on the miracle that Miss Marple bought to us a few nights ago. You can see it at the LUN. It is simply impossible to believe that the total has passed $300,000 and that over 12,000 people have contributed an average of $24.00.

TK
This is to your response on the previous thread
Trump needs Kasich now more than the reverse.
Trump is a smart practical guy.
He knows the moves he needs to make after trying to humiliate his fellow candidates.